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meka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 85 Location: Novi Sad / Vojvodina / Srbija
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:17 am Post subject: portage on windows? |
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Did I got it right? There was once a port of portage on Windows? I really need something that can do install of gentoo binary packages for my project (I will port it my self if there is no Windows port). |
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fangorn Veteran
Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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You refer to the geNToo homepage anouncing a port for the windows NT microkernel?
AFAIK that was a hoax for april 1. _________________ Video Encoding scripts collection | Project page |
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tiketti n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Finland
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22bsti n00b
Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 14 Location: the armpit of the west
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meka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 85 Location: Novi Sad / Vojvodina / Srbija
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen that, but Interix homepage says it is not for free any more. Reading the forum post refered on the page from the gentoo-wiki, I've found out that there is SFU freely (M$ free != GNU free) available binary. This will save a lot of time. Thanx guys. |
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eroyf Retired Dev
Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 82
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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There is no official Windows port of Gentoo and there hopefully never will. |
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meka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 85 Location: Novi Sad / Vojvodina / Srbija
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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I, too, hope it will never be. But, when you have jersk profesors at the University, you don't have a choice. Thanx for all the answers! |
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Unther Apprentice
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 163
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Interix is broken, and the attempt to port portage was never properly completed. If you want interix, I would suggest using a BSD as a wrapper layer.
Cygwin is supposed to work, never tried it.
CoLinux works and is pretty straight forward.
All run on Windows. |
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phajdan.jr Retired Dev
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1777 Location: Poland
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Portage cannot handle windows components, that's probably obvious. If you want to run gentoo on windows, you have relevant article. And geNToo was surely an april fool joke.
edit: slightly misunderstood the author's intentions, but now I think this post is quite funny |
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Unther Apprentice
Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 163
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, the geNToo article was an April fools, but they did so much work making it plausible, that in fact they provided the concept and links for the Portage on Interix/SFU idea, which works, even if badly. (It needs a LOT of work.) |
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GNUtoo Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Unther wrote: | Interix is broken, and the attempt to port portage was never properly completed. If you want interix, I would suggest using a BSD as a wrapper layer.
Cygwin is supposed to work, never tried it.
CoLinux works and is pretty straight forward.
All run on Windows. |
broken and incredibly slow!!!
did you ever tryed to compile something on SFU?
why not using pkgsrc on interix?
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#platforms
and why do you need Gentoo or linux on top of windows...
several solution exist...but it depend on what your problem is |
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Donman Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 117
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: |
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An option that would probably be easier and better IMHO, would be to run Windows on top of Gentoo, via VMware. That way, you would not have to worry about getting portage to work on Windows. But maybe I have your issue all wrong. |
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enlightend n00b
Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 29
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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From his "jerky professors" quote I'm guessing hes not allowed to install any kind of Linux at his Uni. |
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meka Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 85 Location: Novi Sad / Vojvodina / Srbija
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I did not want to post anything till I do a little research. I need livecd that can store config, packages and stuff on windows partition. The problem was ntfs being ro, but then I "discovered" ntfs3g. I know this is not rock solid implementation, but it will do the job, so noe need for portage on Windows any more. Oh, what a great news!!! Anyway, your posts were very helpful. Thanx! |
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irgu Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 131
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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meka wrote: | but then I "discovered" ntfs3g. I know this is not rock solid implementation |
What do you mean it's not rock solid? Reliability wise it seems to be completely stable, i.e. I don't know about any possible data corruption scenario (see the testing process: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/quality.html#testmethods). Some features are indeed missing but those are not affecting data integrity. |
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GNUtoo Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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please add [solved]to your post |
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